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Call for 2024 thematic issue

“Healthy and sustainable cities: environment, population and social dynamics”

 

This special issue seeks to present studies aimed at understanding the forces at work in regional development, as well as the social and environmental impacts derived from these actions, in both urban and rural environments. The aim is to understand, in the light of modern theories, both the historical approach to the process of occupying urban and rural territories, as well as future trends on a short, medium and long time scale.
Studies are accepted that can be linked to a regional/local planning perspective, seeking to reduce regional asymmetries, reducing poverty and proposing healthy cities, while taking into account criteria associated with sustainable regional development, with a focus on protecting and reducing environmental impacts derived from both private sector activities and public policies.
In cities, there are unfair and avoidable inequalities, which are the result of the unequal distribution of social, population and environmental determinants, which accentuate the quality of life conditions of their residents.
In this sense, we believe that contributions can be made by any branch of Geography that is concerned with the issues raised above.

Guest Editor
Sílvio Rodrigues